Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-02-03
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Hall joints! 1t was photograph o.
the man iZself,'
Did he tell his name?' asked the
chief
No"
why didn't You ask him for it?''
HI was so scarf hi didn't know
my own
Fiddle! Well. did he mention
either of these names here: Ivy
Snaer. John Earring OF Celeste
Bright?''
Yes. e spoke of the one with the
'eavenIy 'andle; said she was IL
niece
:. Any others2'
"Hu-m-m - femme see: yes. {
spoke OF a sister named Blower-h
think il was-hoUu West. an some
Teller named Prime who turned 'izseit
TO a Fowler. an some Mexican named
GuHnysack. or somethin- line that.
- guess you don't know a great
deal about il. Why didn't YOU put
down what he said -
Gum. hi was putin in down:
hi didn want i'm 10 eut me-"
- Fudge! Wei, make a written
statement tonight before it Leaves
your noodle altogether. and I viii file
the papers in the morning with the
proper authority. and notify this niece
did you ascertain if there really was
such person."
Yes. hi card er warblin'; leastwise
the Teller said it was err"
= Il wonder if il was the Iameish miss
who sung IN the concert at Music Hall
the other night? Seems 10 me that was
her name.
Hi WASH there. but if that one 'ad
a voice like 7 hanCei it was err
'.We ell. l VIII look the matter up in
the morning. Why. what become OF
the young man You brought? He could
probably tell US about it Then we
ought TO have his statement. too"
One of the night force. knocking the
said he had noticed him going out the
side door. looking as if he had seen
ghosts. or been shocked by Kentucky
borbOn. and offered the further infor-
nation that he had seen the young man
often reading and writing in the court
house library of late.
But john Earring had fed away into
the shadows ere the man had finished,
crying within himself: ''Oh, she viii
know it then, she viii know itn' and
again the fiery thirst 10 tell her all and
of his love AMI pity came upon him.
and his feet ike two hot winds carried
him toward her: but long ere he had
finished half the distance he felt that
ne could not: that the very thought
was 4 kind of insanity: and he swerved
from his course and went into Eden
Park. and through half the night
walked about IN its stiffness. br0oding,
and breaking out into prayer-like
snatches of speech. Perhaps-no; she
would surely know upon the morrow.
He must not remain. It would only be
the deadlier for her If he had only
told her of his Iovei o., if he had only
told her that! Il seemed to him ne
must crv ont: how could he leave her
to heI pain?
When the morning broke he had
gone. All the long day, while the
train raced through the green world as
if bent on entering the western haven
ahead OF the sun. self-pity and pity for
her burned together in him, mixed
with a thousand glimpses. shades and
attitudes of the fatal matter. Man
always follows the strongest influence;
out of the myriad little forces that
push and pull. one. ADLER than the
rest, singlv. or drawing others TO its
cause. ever plucks US away to do and
follow its behest. With him it was a
wish. 4 wish that was ike a parching
thirst. and only such perhaps rs batfied
love engenderS, TO protect the slender.
lame and motheriesS girl from shame
T. l., i
only partly compass it at best. and that.
By fleeing from her Even if the fatal
facts should escape from their old dark
ness into her sight, the property which
had fallen to her, and which would
have been his but for a death envel-
oped in doubt and mystery, would DE
like a gulf between them 0 if ne
had only told her of his love before!
Now might she not think that he only
sought his own through herr Might
she not give herself 10 him to return
him what might De his own and not for
love. which he valued Oniv2 No, no.
she would never be unworthy of her
self she could NOT be that. But If this
horror fell fully upon her. and he came
TO her then. would she not think it was
out of sheer pity. and not for love?
love which to her, as to him, must be
dearar than gold. sweeter than pity,
and all-sufficient IN itself He prayed
mentally that the truth in all its cruel
tullness might be denied her; that only
the papers and the fact of her uncle
death might reach her. II an inquest
were held. though the evidence might
be meager and broken. he felt that her
soul must divine the truth.
An. he would not be there to make it
biUterer: they would not know whittier
he had gone. not even she.
That day ne wrote her Il note. with
ont heading, saying simply that he had
thought it best to 20 away, and dropped
it into mail car that tieeted toward
the East. The next morning he came
into Openstone Openstone sitting
among her prairies. that Tapped. and
swayed. and rolled away. as if the fat
old earth had grown intending double
chins. Indeed, Openstone seemed sit
ting in the heart Of plenty. and was
busting and driving. as she had these
thirty years with ever accelerating
pulse, increasing numerals and enlarg-
ing airs. The ways of the cities were
coming 60 be hers: here were hints of
Babylon. there touches OF SOdom. and
still beyond giimpses of Gomorrah.
Perhaps for these she was the more de-
lightsOme; perhaps for these she was a
thing for tears.
John Earring walking spirItlessly up
one of her streets carried TOO much
that was dark upon his heart. and felt
too much that was sad reel into his
memory. 10 be much shaken with her
glory. No one knew where he had
been or for what purpose he had gone;
it were much as if he had fallen out of